Famous Citizens and Alumni of The University
- Ernst Abbe, physicist, social reformer, partner of Carl Zeiss and Otto Schott
- Anton Wilhelm Amo, African philosopher
- Johannes R. Becher, poet and politician
- Hans Berger, discoverer of human EEG
- Bernhard, Prince of the Netherlands
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, influential German naturalist, doctor, comparative anatomist and physiologist
- Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, orientalist and Protestant theologian of the Enlightenment
- Robert Enke, German footballer
- Walter Eucken, founder of neoliberal economic theory
- Rudolf Eucken, philosopher and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte, philosopher and early German nationalist
- Gottlob Frege, mathematician, logician, and philosopher
- Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel, inventor of the kindergarten
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, poet/writer
- Ernst Haeckel, German evolutionary biologist/zoologist
- G. W. F. Hegel, philosopher
- Friedrich Hölderlin, poet
- Martin Luther, reformer
- Philipp Melanchthon, theologian
- Johann Karl August Musäus, German author
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher
- Novalis, poet
- Max Reger, composer, pianist, professor and conductor
- Friedrich Schelling
- Friedrich Schiller, poet/writer
- Caroline Böhmer Schlegel Schelling
- Wilhelm Schlegel, philosopher
- Bernd Schneider, German footballer
- Otto Schott, inventor of fireproof glass, founder of the Schott glass works
- Reinhard Johannes Sorge, German poet, dramatist, and Roman Catholic convert
- Johann Gustav Stickel, orientalist
- Kurt Tucholsky, writer
- Carl Zeiss, founder of the Zeiss company
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“The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.”
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